How Standards Rule the World

Ingrid Gustafsson

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Abstract: This book explains how international standards have come to specify almost all aspects of society, While resting on buzzwords such as ‘trust’ and ‘confidence’, the global control regime leaves us with a faceless bureaucratic system with no name and no one in charge. Using empirical and in depth analysis , the author discusses the consequences for responsibility: if no one is in charge, then no one is to be held accountable for how standards rule the world.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
ISBN: 9781788975018
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Organizing a global world , pp 1-12

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Ch 2 Standards, certification and accreditation , pp 13-27

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Ch 3 Organizing, organizations and distance , pp 28-42

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Ch 4 The Global Approach , pp 43-60

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Ch 5 The Goods Package , pp 61-80

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Ch 6 Construction of a global control regime , pp 81-97

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Ch 7 Control and distance , pp 98-111

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Ch 8 The control regime, the state and responsibility , pp 112-122

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Ch 9 Macro-organization , pp 123-133

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